Date calculation

Hi Patra,

Yes, this is possible but requires some knowledge of JavaScript. There are many, many posts here in these forums that cover working with dates- do some searches on DATE and/or TIME calculations and you may find a script that does most of what you want that you can alter to fit your requirements.

Also, there is a series of articles at JavaScript Corner on working with Dates and Time in Acrobat with examples and explanations. Here is a link to Part 1-

http://www.acrobatusers.com/tech_corners/javascript_corner/tips/2006/date_time_part1/

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com
www.pdfscripting.com

Yes, yuo can use the "Date2Num()" funciton in FormCalc to get the number of days since the Epoch date used by LiveCycle Designer, Jan 1, 1900. Once you get the date string converted to days from the fixed date you can compute the difference. Note you will need to pay close attention to the format of the date fields.

FormCalc:

var ReturnDate = "6 Jan 2008"
var FirstDay = "Jan 1, 2008"
Date2Num(ReturnDate, "D MMM YYYY") - Date2Num(FirstDay, "MMM D, YYYY")


It is also possible with JavaScript but this can sometimes be confusing.

Hi gkaiseril ,

Can you give me a little help how to write the script?

Thanks